Dec 19, 202414 minS0
Vanishing Vulcans🌋💨👻 Spock's home planet is probably one of the most famous exoplanets, thanks to Star Trek lore. Turns out, Vulcan has a storied past in our own solar system's history, which Dr. Ben Montet shares in...
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Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers
Hosted by Explore Astro · education · EN-US
About this Podcast:
Dr. Jessie Christiansen from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech interviews the brilliant minds behind the discoveries of planets orbiting other stars.
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What is Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers about?
Dr. Jessie Christiansen from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC/Caltech interviews the brilliant minds behind the discoveries of planets orbiting other stars.
Who hosts Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers?
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is hosted by Explore Astro. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
What has Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers covered recently?
Recent episodes include "ExploreExoplanets: TheDiscoverers; Ep. 18 Ben Montet (part 2)" (19 December 2024, 14 minutes), "Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 17 Ben Montet (part 1)" (5 December 2024, 14 minutes), and "Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 16 Ashley Chontos (part 2)" (12 September 2024, 14 minutes).
How often does Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers publish?
Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 13 minutes across 18 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers?
Booking probability for Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recent episodes
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- Dec 5, 202414 minS0
Innocent Until Proven Planet! 🛰️⚖️🪐 "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle Dr. Ben Montet set out to study black holes and then radio...
- Sep 12, 202414 minS0
💙 An Avatar of Pandora? 💙 Did the movie Avatar predict the discovery of the holy grail of exoplanets: a nearby Earth-like rocky planet orbiting a Sun-like star? Drs. Jessie Christiansen and Ashley Chontos continue...
- Aug 22, 202413 minS0
Worth the Wait 🛰️⏳📅🪐 NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope found its first planet candidate in 2009. Ten years later, KOI-4.01 was finally confirmed as an exoplanet by a team led by Dr. Ashley Chontos. The...
- Aug 1, 202414 minS0
Hollywood 🎥 vs. Kepler-22 b 🪐 Jessie returns to her chat with Dr. Bruce Macintosh, Director of the University of California Observatories, and he explains why Kepler-22 b is his LEAST favorite exoplanet—even though...
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- Jul 18, 202413 minS0
Exoplanet Trifecta: Seeing and Believing 🤩👀🔭🪐🪐🪐 What is it like to spend eight years chasing down hundreds of possible planets that turn out to be false positives, and then discover three planets at once? It takes...
- May 23, 202415 minS0
A Planet Around a Dead, Spinning Star 🌀😵💫 How realistic is the science in Interstellar, and have we found anything close to an actual Miller's Planet? In part 2 of Jessie's interview with Dr. David Kipping, they...
- May 9, 202415 minS0
Dr. David Kipping of Columbia University, host of the popular Cool Worlds Podcast, is looking beyond exoplanets: he's set his sights on finding exomoons! Watch and find out which exoplanet David thinks might have its...
- Apr 4, 202413 minS0
Is Middle Earth an Exoplanet? 🧝🧙🧭📜🏰⛰️🌋🪐 In part 2 of her interview, Dr. Emily Gilbert makes a convincing case that Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings series is actually its own planet! Watch and tell us if you...
- Mar 16, 202412 minS0
What's better than discovering an exoplanet? How about discovering THREE exoplanets...all at once! Early-career researcher Dr. Emily Gilbert talks about the exoplanet bonanza of the TOI-700 system that made headline...
- Dec 21, 202313 minS0
Is there a planet near the center of our galaxy like Trantor? Jessie shares what she's found in the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and Peter answers a viewer question: "How old do stars have to be to have planets?" 🌟🪐🪐🪐
- Dec 14, 202313 minS0
All Roads Lead to AU Mic ⛔🔭🪐 Despite denial, discouragement and telemarketing jobs, Dr. Peter Plavchan found a path to a career in astronomy...and a famous exoplanet! Join Jessie as she chats with Peter about how he...
- Nov 30, 202312 minS0
A Real-life Tatooine?🪐☀️☀️ Did Jessie go to a galaxy far, far away to find a real-life counterpart to Tatooine, Etienne's favorite fictional planet?
- Nov 9, 202312 minS0
Jessie chats with Dr. Etienne Bachelet about how stars can bend light, and how we can use that phenomenon to find exoplanets.
- Oct 26, 202311 minS0
Jessie continues her chat with Dr. Jennifer Burt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and reveals whether she's found a real-life Roshar in the NASA Exoplanet Archive or if that multi-planet system is still a fantasy...
- Oct 12, 202312 minS0
IPAC's Dr. Jessie Christiansen chats with Dr. Jennifer Burt of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on how she splits starlight into rainbows (a.k.a. Extreme Precision Radial Velocity) to study exoplanets, which of the six...
- Sep 28, 202310 minS0
Forbidding and Forbidden Planets: In this second half of Dr. Jessie Christiansen's interview with Dr. Chas Beichman, we find out why Altair 4 is Chas's favorite fictional planet and if there are any real planets like it...
- Sep 14, 202312 minS0
Blowtorch On A Planet! In this inaugural episode, Jessie finds out why her boss, Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute Dr. Charles Beichman, is considered a pioneer in exoplanet research. Dr...
Recent guests
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David Kipping
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Cool Worlds lab at Columbia University
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Bruce Macintosh
University of California Observatories
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Dr. Jennifer Burt
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Dr. Charles Beichman
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
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